How to Write an Awesome Blog Post in 24 Hours

Using these tips will help you to write an awesome blog post in 24 hours. The “24 hour” timescale I’m putting on this is going from a blank page, to that post going live! As a beginner or someone who’s looking to fine tune their skills to be able to get more quality content out in a shorter space of time, this simple framework will help you get those posts out quicker than you thought you could. 

 

Plan In Advance

In an ideal world, having some time planned into your day where you can sit down, turn your phone off, no distractions, nothing to disturb you, your time is 100% your own, would be the best time to sit down and write your blog post.

Realistically? If you are waiting for this time to appear – it won’t. Life happens. Life has a way of always throwing distractions at us. We need our blogs to work for us. That’s part of the joy of it. It fits in around us and our busy lives.

Yes there absolutely is ways we can minimise distractions. For example by doing things like, communicating to your family/those in your house that you won’t be available for an hour/two hours, turning your phone off or onto aeroplane mode so you aren’t bombarded with notifications, using apps that block other apps on your phone for a set amount of time so you can’t faff on social media, or making sure the dogs have had a good walk so they aren’t running riot about the house while you sit down to write.

These are all things you can do to help give yourself that distraction free time. But please remember these are just things that can help give you that time. Life often has other plans.

If you can manage to find this focus time then that’s amazing and you should absolutely utilise this! 

 

If not… do not wait for this time to appear. 

It won’t.

 

This is something that took me years to work out. 

What is better? Waiting until you find this perfect time which may never happen depending on your life and commitments, or making the most of the time you can have/make?

I often used to be always waiting for the perfect time. 

Waiting for the day I had a few hours free, on a day I felt productive, where the dogs just so happened to be settled etc etc. And if this didn’t happen, I never got anything done.

A way around this is to break the task down into smaller more manageable chunks and work on bits as and when you get the time.

If you don’t manage to get it all done in one go, this way you will feel like you’ve made progress rather than not getting anything done.

I’ve had more free time to myself to work on my blog in these crazy times of lockdown. That’s a given. But I’ve also had an injured and then unwell dog who has been needing my attention and care a lot more than usual! So shutting myself off for a couple of hours to get posts written wasn’t as feasible as when the dogs were all happy and healthy. 

And do you know what?

That’s okay.

 

That’s life.

 

Hopefully breaking things down in this way will help you get those posts written and live. No matter how chaotic and hectic life may be! 

If you get those perfect moments where you can just sit and focus then that’s an absolute win. If not – we work around it!

It can always be done! 

The three things that help me out in terms of forward planning are:

• A Content Ideas List
• A Content Schedule
• A decent backlog of photos – self taken or stock images

I’ll explain how I use each of these and why they are so useful to me in planning out posts and how to get them written and live a lot quicker than you may think.

Let’s get into the practical of how to write an awesome blog post in 24 hours!

 

Content Ideas List

This is honestly one of the best tools you can have when it comes to wanting to write an awesome blog post in 24 hours – or less!

It’s literally a list of content/post/video ideas.

Keep a document or a piece of paper with a list of content ideas on. 

Ideally you want to have at least 50ish on this list at all times so you can never say you don’t fancy talking about any of them on that day. 

Your blog should be on a topic you love anyway so thinking up this many ideas is easier than it sounds. 

 

You will find as you start to make the list, more ideas flood to mind and the list may end up even longer than the 50!

 

You can always change some, take some out and add more in, it’s literally just for content ideas.

This automatically takes away the “I don’t know what to write about” excuse. It also stops you spending far too long choosing something to write about, than actually writing.

I am so so bad for going on Netflix, and spending more time scrolling through to find something, than actually watching something. Same thing!

This way you have a list of relevant blog post ideas to hand. All you need to do at this point is either choose one that jumps out at you, or even better than this – pick a few top ones and pop them into your content schedule…

 

Content Schedule

You can make a content schedule as simple or as complex as you like.

Mine now is more complex than it was a few years ago. But it doen’t have to be. To begin with you can literally create a spreadsheet (or paper if you are more comfortable with this, but digital will give you a lot more flexibility), and put some columns in for “Blog Post Title”, “Date” (to go live), “Written” and “Live”.

If you want to add in some extra bits to the spreadsheet you can add things like if a post is linked to another of your posts, if there are any affiliate links in them etc etc but you honestly don’t need to worry about this if you’re a new blogger or even just new to having a schedule.

All you have to do then is pop dates in for when you want posts to go live, however many times a week you choose to post. Then take the top few ideas (2 weeks worth is often a good number, no matter whether you post once or 5 times a week), and put them against those dates.

You may find once you have learned how to write an awesome blog post in 24 hours, you are wanting to get more content out. More is always better, as long as it’s all good quality content. 

 

People want to hear what you have to say, that’s why they are there! To reaad and take in your awesomeness.

 

Obviously you can chop and change which ones go out on what dates. This is as flexible as you want it to be. But this not only takes any faff out and stress as to what is going out when, but means you can also write posts in advance as you already know what’s going out next. 

You can keep notes next to each post title too for any extra ideas you have. You will find that having a list of ideas and then putting them into the content schedule will make the world of difference to your organisation and let you get posts out a lot quicker than before.

 

Keyword Research

Keyword research is an important part of writing blog posts. I will be writing a post all about this in the near future, but doing some research and picking post topics that people are commonly searching for or are very specific, will help in terms of page views and people finding your blog. 

Doing research for this in advance will help you speed up your writing time and help you write an awesome blog post in 24 hours.

 

Photos

Keeping a collection of photos “ready to go” can be trickier. It depends on if you take your own or if you need a specific picture to link back to the content of your post.

This is made easier when you have that list of content ideas so you can see exactly what photos/pictures you are needing for those posts. Where possible, try and take these together also so these are also ready to go.

On my website here I use mostly stock photos so I dedicate some time – often just an hour or so – to go to my favourite websites and I save images I like and want to use for upcoming posts. 

This not only saves time but also means that if you change your mind about which post you want to write that day, you still have a photo ready to go.

It’s all about keeping organised and taking any unnecessary stress out!

When your aim is to write an awesome blog post in 24 hours or less, the more pre-planning you can do, the better.

Structuring Your Blog Post

The points above are all about being organised beforehand, but what about when it comes to writing the post?

Posts should – on average – be between 1500-2500 words.

If you are new to writing or have been writing posts that are more around the 500 mark, this may sound really daunting and like it will take days to do – but there’s a trick!

You already have your title chosen and photo ready to go, all you now need is content.

Write out the title and then for a post of about 1500 words, write out 5 or so subheadings you want in your post. Then pop them into the right order so that your post has the best flow to it.

Now all you have to do is fill in under those subheadings! 

Suddenly you are only needing to write 5 x 300 word mini posts! 

How much easier does that sound?

Of course if you are writing a 2500+ post you will want to add in a few extra headings and those will obviously take a lot longer to werit, but a 1500 word post with 5 subheadings – you can get one of those written in an hour! 

That may sound like it’s not achievable but that’s only one of those subheadings with the 300 words in in 12 minutes – very doable! 

 

Time Yourself

 

People often do this with school work too! You think you have a week so you take the full week, knowing that if you just focused, you could get it all done in about 4 hours.

This is exactly the same.

If you give yourself a week to write one post,  it will take you the week.

Give yourself that 24hr (or less) timescale, and watch how much you manage to get done!

 

Experience Counts

It does take some practice to be able to get a full post written in one hour, plus some posts may need more research done beforehand, or it takes a little longer to think of those 5 subheadings etc, this is why a good realistic goal for a post as a new blogger is to get it all written and edited and live in that 24hr period. 

The more you write and the more experienced you get, the faster you will get. You will be so into the swing of your content ideas list, your content schedule and your collection of saved/taken photos that you can start getting posts written and up in just an hour or so! 

It takes time to get there, but is absolutely doable!

Don’t rush through writing a post, but I often find that the faster you aim to do it, the better it flows and the more information comes out as you are so focused on what you are doing.

If you give yourself a week to write one post, it will take you the week.

If you give yourself 3 days, it will take you the 3 days.

The same is true of shorter timescales – if you give yourself 24 hours to get a post live, you will absolutely get it done in those 24 hours. Then as you become more comfortable and more experienced, you can shorten that time down, then suddenly you’re writing 5 posts in the time it was initially taking you to write one!

That’s 5 times the content, just by following these tips and this basic outline for how to write a 1500+ word blog post.

 

Editing and Going Live

As you’ve already done so much prep up to this point the editing shouldn’t take long at all. 

Once the post is all written and checked over, it’s then just a case of adding in any links, adding in your chosen photo, and hitting publish! 

Remember to check it off on your content schedule and it’s done! Live! Less than 24 hours!

 

Bonus tip

When you take that time to get more photos and fill more in in your content schedule, say once a week, add on more ideas to your content list – always try and keep it at at least 50.

If you are now getting out 5 posts a week, this is suddenly only 10 weeks worth! Not including any you decide not to do, or ones you decide to amalgamate into one post.

I’m of course not saying you need to post 5 times a week, but the more the merrier when it comes to content!

 A small bit of preparation and organisation can go a long way and really take any stress or faffing out – it’s the best fun, so enjoy it!

 

Summary

Quick summary for how write an awesome blog post in 24 hours (or less):

• Have a content ideas list (do some keyword research either to go with these ideas, or at the time of writing the post)
• Have photos saved as much as possible
• Structure your post into manageable chucks – use these as headers
• Time yourself – don’t give yourself a long time to do something
• Edit
• Live

Done!

 

Speak soon!

Katherine

 

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